When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol’ Jack Burton always says at a time like that: “Have ya paid your dues, Jack?” “Yessir, the check is in the mail.”

These guys beg to differ: https://globalsumudflotilla.org/

If California switched to a better voting system, we wouldn’t have to write or read these kind of articles… STAR Voting or Approval Voting would both work really well for this insane gubernatorial election. Check out https://equal.vote/. Get involved. Let’s ditch this horrible system we currently use!

Deepseek gives these examples of instances where socialist policies were implemented without violence:

• UK NHS (1948): Passed via parliamentary consensus post-WWII. No fighting.
• German Pensions (1889): Enacted by Bismarck as top-down reform. No violence.
• US Social Security (1935): Passed via legislation.
• Nordic Childcare: Expanded gradually via labor unions and coalitions.

I’m not saying that pacifist solutions are faster or more effective, but I don’t want anyone I know to to kill or be killed. It is possible to change the world without starting generations-long, unforgivable blood fueds.

I’m hoping for “AI destroys Capitalist system, so emergency Socialist safety net is deployed.” And then we pop out the other side and only have to work 10 hours a week, because AI does the rest…

Type O Negative’s version of “Summer Breeze” https://youtu.be/XNo7ZZryuSQ

Never forget.

My house is full of these lil’ guys. They’re chill, but they don’t like it when I try to pet them.

I use XMPP. Don’t be hatin’.